New Delhi, June 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an all-party meeting on June 19 to discuss the stand-off on the India-China border, which claimed lives of 20 Indian soldiers.
‘In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 PM on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting,’ the Prime Minister’s office said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The decision comes a day after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a border clash with the Chinese soldiers in Galwan Valley in Ladakh.
India and China have been engaged in a stand-off for over a month, after China advanced its troops along the LAC and transgressed it at multiple locations in Eastern Ladakh.
Following the standoff in eastern Ladakh, the two sides have deployed additional troops along the LAC, the de-facto Sino-India border, in North Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh.
Both the sides had held a series of talks in the last few days to resolve the row.
